Abstract:Phase diverse speckle is a novel kind of imaging technique and can be used to overcome image degradation from unknown phase aberrations, such as atmospheric turbulence. The wave-front phase expanded on the Zernike polynomials is estimated from a pair of images (in the focal and out of focus planes). In this paper the principle of PDS is analyzed, and genetic algorithm is used as the iterative algorithm to simulate some characteristics, such as the influence of Zernike polynomials'mode, amplitude of turbulence on the phase estimation. Thus, a new method for recovery of images is explored.